North Korea can often look like a regular country. It can make good films and write nice music, its leader can behave like a doting father and supportive husband, and commuters go about their lives on the Pyongyang metro. 

But when the regime perceives somebody as an enemy, they will relentlessly hunt down and destroy this threat, squashing out any hint that they ever existed. 

The North Koreans are better than ever at this thanks to modern technology. Recently, state media broadcast “The Taehongdang Party Secretary” (대홍단책임비서), a popular television series that first aired on Korean Central Television(KCTV) in